“The strongly worded front-page commentary responded to harsh criticism of China from the US for allowing Snowden to flee. ‘Not only did the US authorities not give us an explanation and apology, it instead expressed dissatisfaction at the Hong Kong special administrative region for handling things in accordance with law,’ wrote Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military Science. ‘In a sense, the United States has gone from a ‘model of human rights’ to ‘an eavesdropper on personal privacy’, the ‘manipulator’ of the centralised power over the international internet, and the mad ‘invader’ of other countries’ networks,’ the People’s Daily said.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/peoples-daily-savages-us-over-snowden
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